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allow ZPOOL INIT RECOUP/PDU/PSDIR entries to use multiple ECBS

allow ZPOOL INIT RECOUP/PDU/PSDIR entries to use multiple ECBS
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Calculation of Message Existence Time

Customer finds message existence time useful in tracking performance. Existence time is mean ecb's inuse/message rate. For example mean 500 ecb's inuse to process 5000 msg/sec means message existence time is 100 mils.IBM does report ecb's inuse an...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

zdbug timestamp

Customer is asking for timestamp to be include in the zdbug display to indicated the time that the user registered the session.This would assist them when doing problem determine when user are have debugger registration issue.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

MakeTPF search behavior change of the local_mod folders

The Customer is asking for a change in the MakeTPF search behavior change of the local_mod folders .The way it works now is to search all LM folders first ... that way a local mod always takes precedence over the base version equivalent, even if t...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Change the max for ZHTTP MQUEUE to 9,999 and the schema maximums for queue length, sessions to start and sessions to 999

Change the maximum on the ZHTTP MOD MQUEUE (ZHTTP MOD MQUEUE-9999) command to 9999 and modify the xsd files to allow a maximum value of 999 instead of 99 on the following tags: sessionsToStartTypemaxSessionsTypemaxQueueLenType .xsd file... <sim...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

limit dumps when buffer is full

A method must be provided to limit dumps when the dump buffer area is getting full. A ZASER MAXOPR should be provided that is similar to ZASER MAXCTL as well. The CPSE0156I message should be updated to indicate the dump being dumped .
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Better Scaling of TPF Logical Record Cache

TPF Logical Record Cache while functional is inefficient at scale due to poor hashing algorithms and incorrect prime number calculations that in combination produce long synonym chains and high CPU burn when chasing them.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

64bit Memory Manager Support For More Than 2GB Contiguous Heap

System Heap Allocations are limited in various places to 2GB or 4GB contiguous storage. During an attempt to allocate more than 2GB the system allocated the storage but caused heap corruption and either hangs or produces a PPROT error. In various ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

LOGCAP macro enhancement

client has 3 dasd device types. DEVA/DEVB/DEVC . Would like to distribute exception recording and logging across 3 tapes, RTX, RTU, and RTV. Would like each tape to service 1/3 of the devices for each device type. As an example the RTX would conta...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

JSON support on zTPF

Need JSON support directly on zTPF
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

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